1820-02-21 Birth: Emaline S. B. Johnson

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01753
Source
Transcriptions of Early County Records of New Jersey: Gloucester County Series Slave Documents

New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration. Transcriptions of Early County Records of New Jersey: Gloucester County Series Slave Documents. Newark: Historical Records Survey, 1940.
Event Description
The following birth record from Gloucester County was transcribed by the Historical Records Survey Project of the Works Progress Administration. The transcript was originally published in 1940 in the book titled Transcriptions of Early County Records of New Jersey: Gloucester County Series Slave Documents. The transcript is reproduced below as it appeared in that book.

GLOUCESTER COUNTY DOCUMENT NUMBER: 4

TRANSCRIPT:

State of New Jersey
Gloucester County SS
To all to whom it may concern:-
I, James Matlack of Woodbury in the County & State aforesaid, do hereby certify that on the Twenty first day of February A D, Eightteen hundred and twenty.
A Female Child named Emaline S. B. Johnson, aged at this time Seven weeks was born of the body of Phebe Johnson a Courlered Woman a Slave the property of the said Matlack - Which certificate is produced to the Clerk of the said County to be recorded this Tenth day of April A D eighteen hundred and twenty -
Per James Matlack April 10th 1820.
[Verso]
Certificate of the Birth of Emaline S. B. Johnson daughter of Phebe Johnson a slave
Recorded 10 April 1820 in the Book A of Manumissions Page 6
Hendry, Clk.
Event Type
Birth
Date
February 21, 1820
Location of Event
Woodbury
Deptford
Primary Participants

Emaline S. B. Johnson (b. 1820)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04460
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- James Matlack
Verbatim description from source:
"A Female Child named Einaline S. B. Johnson, aged at this time Seven weeks was born of the body of Phebe Johnson"

Phebe Johnson
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04454
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- James Matlack
Verbatim description from source:
"Phebe Johnson a Courlered Woman a Slave the property of the said Matlack"
Additional Participants

James Matlack
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04448
Role: Enslaver

Thomas Hendry
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04440
Role: County Clerk
Record Contributor
Kemy Rodriguez
Resource class
Event